How has your mindset changed with regards to other players since your started the ga?

[Anhra]

I don’t get why people keep bringing WoW up though to be honest. You clearly know the reaction it gets, so why do it?

I’d agree FF14 has a lot of passive agressivness in NN and on forums but for me that’s head and shoulders above some of the stuff I saw in trade chat when playing wow.

I might be able to answer this to a certain degree.
Since WoW is one of the oldest MMO's arround and still kicking arround just fine, it had set alot "norms" for other MMO's which they either tried to copy or use as a template to create their own stuff (or at least, it looked that way).
WoW has in my opinion, a great combat system, it isn't perfect, but every job is capable of dealing with any kind of situation to a fair degree (even in PvP) and ontop of that, customisation options for skills (which we unfortunately, dont have) in the form of skilltrees.
as for the matter of PvP, they also have way more content than we probably will ever have in FFXIV, which is a real shame, to be exact they have:
- 11 battleground options (also crossrealm)
- you can duel everywhere outside of towns
- 2vs2, 3vs3 and 5vs5 arena fights, both ranked and unranked.
- "random pvp", which is automatically triggered on when you see a player of the opposing faction.
- World PvP (dedicated zones iirc) which are 4 in number (imagine bozja with pvp, to put it simple)
and that's just the pvp content, the rest of WoW content is in similar magnitude or even higher, so People who stopped playing the game, usually come with high expectations if they plan to settle for a new game, but end up being disappointed how unfleshed looks like compared to WoW. It doesn't mean that every game is bad compared to WoW, its just them being somewhat disappointed.

In my opinion, WoW are kind of polar opposites, WoW has a Great combat system but a somewhat bad/nonexistent story where your character hardly matters, while FFXIV, has a great story where you do actually matter, with a rather unfleshed and basic form of combat compared to the former.